Bookie Ashwin Agarwal gets judicial custody, two others bail

A local court today remanded main bookie Ashwin Agarwal alias Tinku Delhi in judicial custody till June 24 in connection with the IPL betting case.
The local magistrate's court also granted bail to two other bookies Kishore Badlani and Paresh Batia.
"The court has granted bail to Kishore Badlani and Paresh Batia on the bond of Rs 25,000 each on conditions that are similar to other accused granted bail earlier," said public prosecutor Kiran Bendbar.
Tarun Sharma, the lawyer of Tinku, who also goes by the alias of Tinku Mandi, said that he would argue on his client's bail application tomorrow.

With the court granting bail to Batia and Badlani, the number of accused given the relief so far has reached 14 with the exception of Tinku.
Mumbai Crime Branch had arrested 15 bookies in the betting case.

It can be recalled that 12 accused, including Bollywood actor Vindoo Dara Singh and CSK Team Principal Gurunath Meiyappan, were released on conditional bail on June 3.
They were told to report to the crime branch office every alternate day.
Earlier in the day, Tinku, Batia and Badlani were produced before the court and the crime branch sought their custody.
The crime branch told the court that they wanted to find out about the absconding accused including bookies Pawan Jaipur, Sanjay Jaipur, Jupiter to name a few.

Bendbar told the court that Tinku's brother Sandeep had handed over certain documents detailing some betting transactions with the absconding accused to crime branch.
Defense lawyers countered this saying the custodial interrogation of the accused was not necessary.